Posted on 06/12/2022 2:38:22 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
Katy Tur is opening up about her tumultuous childhood, and her reaction to her father coming out as transgender.
The NBC News correspondent, who is the daughter of legendary Los Angeles broadcasters Zoey (formerly Bob) Tur and Marika Gerrard, sat down with CBS Sunday Morning to share her experience.
Growing up, the broadcaster believed her parents, who were known for reporting the news from their helicopter, were "the coolest people in the world." Tur shared that she even "knew how to fly a helicopter" as a kid.
"It was a really unique and interesting childhood that nobody else had," said Tur, 38, who chronicles her experience in her new memoir, Rough Draft.
However, she also witnessed her parents' struggles up close. In 2013, Tur received a phone call from her father during which he told her that he was transgender.
"My dad said, 'I am a woman.' And I said, 'what?' And my dad said, 'I am a woman. I am transitioning,'" Tur recalled. "I'm going to become a woman."
Tur said she was at first "puzzled" by the announcement, replying, "You've got to be joking. Are you kidding? What are you talking about?"
"My dad was adamant," she continued. "'I'm the wrong person. I'm going to become the right person. Don't you see this is why I've been so angry?' It was a lot."
Tur...said her father would experience "fits of anger" when she was younger, and would become "abusive." She added that they did not get the police involved because to do so would hurt her father's career and ability to provide for the family.
"Something would set him off, and he would get so, so out of control that he would throw his fist through a wall," recalled Tur, who sat with her mother during the interview.
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Apparently, father and daughter haven’t seen each other in 10 years, which means they became estranged before he told her he was a woman and tried to blame his bad behavior on his unhappiness living as a man. What a narcissist...
I know of two women who found out their husbands were cheating on them with men. Both women were shocked to find out because they never suspected. Both filed for divorce right away, of course.
A doctor of my acquaintance had her husband divorce her and do the full male => “female” “transition” thing. This in small town KY, and they were probably in their 50s when this went down. 40s at least. This 10+ years ago.
She remarried.
Weird stuff.
No wonder Katie turD is so F^&ked up.
And SHE presumes to tell US how to think about issues?
After so many years of marriage, finding out your spouse has been cheating on you is gut-wrenching. It’s like finding out your life was a lie.
But, discovering that your spouse has been cheating with the same sex, or that your spouse wants to “transition,” must be even more devastating, especially after so many years of marriage.
Scary for the woman since (outside of drug use) most women with AIDS and a host of other nasty STDs caught them from men who were switch hitters.
A good friend of mine for many years had 5 children with her husband who left her for a man after the kids were grown. She had less trouble dealing with it than the kids. He later died of AIDS. Several of them refused to believe he died of AIDS.
Yep. People who cheat are engaging in reckless behavior and putting the health of their spouses at risk.
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